Skeletal System Quiz 533 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is the smaller bone of the forearm?

Correct Answer: B) Radius.

2. What does red bone marrow do

Correct Answer: B) Makes blood.

3. What is the term for the place where two bones meet?

Correct Answer: A) Joint.

4. The bone in the upper arm

Correct Answer: A) Humerus.

5. Where are the majority of the body's bones located?

Correct Answer: B) Hands and feet.

6. Red bone marrow manufactures blood cells.

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. How do you give chest compressions to an infant?

Correct Answer: B) Two fingers.

8. What type of joints allow for movement?

Correct Answer: B) Movable.

9. Abnormal softening of cartilage

Correct Answer: B) Chondromalacia.

10. The adult skeleton is made up of this many bones?

Correct Answer: B) 206 bones.

11. I protect the brain. I am made up of bones which are fused firmly together to form a shell-like structure. What am I?

Correct Answer: B) SKULL.

12. What holds bones together?

Correct Answer: B) Ligaments.

13. Type of marrow responsible for blood production

Correct Answer: B) Red.

14. What are the cells that remove old bone tissue called?

Correct Answer: C) Osteoclasts.

15. A process that allows the body to get oxygen to burn food for energy and gets rid of carbon dioxide

Correct Answer: A) Respiration.

16. A layer of bone with many small spaces is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone.

17. The process of calcium deposition

Correct Answer: A) Ossification.

18. What is the primary component of bones?

Correct Answer: B) Collagen.

19. The axial skeleton consists of the skull, spine and

Correct Answer: C) Ribs.

20. Which bone protects Spinal cord?

Correct Answer: B) Backbone.